macros – HowtoExcel.net https://howtoexcel.net Analytics. Automation. Process Improvement. Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:28:39 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://howtoexcel.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/h2eicon.png macros – HowtoExcel.net https://howtoexcel.net 32 32 How to Create a Spinning Wheel in Excel https://howtoexcel.net/2026/01/how-to-create-a-spinning-wheel-in-excel.html Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:28:37 +0000 https://howtoexcel.net/?p=11214 Do you want to create a spinning wheel like in the video below? In this post, I’ll show you how you can do this, with the help of visual basic. There are a couple of ways you can create a spinning wheel effect. I’ll go over both approaches, and share the code with you so […]

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]]> How to Use the Macro Recorder in Excel https://howtoexcel.net/2025/10/how-to-use-the-macro-recorder-in-excel.html Tue, 14 Oct 2025 06:07:34 +0000 https://howtoexcel.net/?p=10886 If you find yourself performing the same steps over and over in Excel, whether it’s formatting reports, importing data, cleaning up columns, or just about anything else, the Macro Recorder can save you a ton of time. It’s one of Excel’s most powerful automation tools, yet many users overlook it because they think it requires […]

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]]> How to Get Rid of the Red Warning Bar in Microsoft Excel https://howtoexcel.net/2024/07/how-to-get-rid-of-the-red-warning-bar-in-microsoft-excel.html Mon, 22 Jul 2024 22:48:20 +0000 http://axb.srl.mybluehost.me/?p=9318 Have you opened a file in Excel which contains macros in it only to find that you can’t use it, because the content is blocked? If you’ve come across the following warning bar, I’m going to show you how can you remove it once and for all. This is different than the yellow warning bar […]

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]]> Create a Database Entry Form in Excel to Populate a Sheet Using VBA Macros https://howtoexcel.net/2024/05/create-a-database-entry-form-in-excel-to-populate-a-sheet-using-vba-macros.html Tue, 21 May 2024 00:21:00 +0000 http://axb.srl.mybluehost.me/?p=9004 Excel isn’t a database software but as long as you don’t need to manage millions of data points or have complex, interlocking systems, it can potentially do the job for you — and save you plenty of money. You can create forms, that with the use of visual basic, can populate a database which you […]

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]]> Loop Through Stocks in Google Sheets With a Macro https://howtoexcel.net/2023/11/loop-through-stocks-in-google-sheets-with-a-macro.html Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 http://axb.srl.mybluehost.me/?p=8263 Google Sheets provides investors with a great way to pull in stock prices, ratios, and all sorts of information related to stocks. Pulling in a stock’s history, for example, can make it easy for you to calculate a stock’s relative strength index, or create a MACD chart. But doing any sort of analysis for multiple […]

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]]> Use VBA Code So a User Can Select a File or Folder Path https://howtoexcel.net/2023/01/use-vba-code-so-a-user-can-select-a-file-or-folder-path.html Tue, 31 Jan 2023 03:29:20 +0000 http://axb.srl.mybluehost.me/?p=7689 If you need to reference other files or folders within an Excel sheet, trying to predict what the path will be can be challenging. The easier option is to just have the user select the file or folder from their computer, and then have the path get pasted into a cell. To do this, you […]

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]]> How to Create For Loops in VBA https://howtoexcel.net/2022/08/how-to-create-for-loops-in-vba.html https://howtoexcel.net/2022/08/how-to-create-for-loops-in-vba.html#respond Tue, 02 Aug 2022 23:12:36 +0000 http://axb.srl.mybluehost.me/?p=7168 You can add lots of automation to your spreadsheet by utilizing visual basic (VBA) and running macros. One of the more common macros you might run include loops. In particular, using for loops in VBA can allow you to cycle through a range of data, check for criteria, and then execute commands. Or, you can […]

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]]> https://howtoexcel.net/2022/08/how-to-create-for-loops-in-vba.html/feed 0 Animate Your Dashboards in Excel With This Free Template https://howtoexcel.net/2022/03/animate-dashboards-excel.html https://howtoexcel.net/2022/03/animate-dashboards-excel.html#respond Tue, 08 Mar 2022 01:21:37 +0000 http://axb.srl.mybluehost.me/?p=6785 Dashboards in Excel can update when a user makes a selection on a slicer or refreshes data. You can even use macros to automatically update a chart or dashboard for you. In this post, I’ll share with you a template that I’ve created that will allow you to effectively play your dashboard, updating it from […]

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]]> https://howtoexcel.net/2022/03/animate-dashboards-excel.html/feed 0 How to Create a Toggle Button on the Excel Ribbon https://howtoexcel.net/2021/12/how-to-create-a-toggle-button-on-the-excel-ribbon.html https://howtoexcel.net/2021/12/how-to-create-a-toggle-button-on-the-excel-ribbon.html#respond Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:42:09 +0000 http://axb.srl.mybluehost.me/?p=6539 In a previous post, I went over how to modify the Excel ribbon with some basic buttons. This time, I’m going to focus specifically on a toggle button that can change the value of a cell or trigger a calculation or macro. In this example, I’ll show you how you can create a toggle button […]

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]]> https://howtoexcel.net/2021/12/how-to-create-a-toggle-button-on-the-excel-ribbon.html/feed 0 How to Customize the Excel Ribbon Using the Custom UI Editor https://howtoexcel.net/2021/07/how-to-customize-the-excel-ribbon-using-the-custom-ui-editor.html https://howtoexcel.net/2021/07/how-to-customize-the-excel-ribbon-using-the-custom-ui-editor.html#respond Tue, 27 Jul 2021 06:37:38 +0000 http://axb.srl.mybluehost.me/?p=5897 In a previous post, I covered how you can customize the Excel ribbon in what was a pretty manual process. The good news is there is a much easier way to make changes to the ribbon using the Custom UI Editor. Below, I’ll cover how you can add and remove both tabs and groups, how […]

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